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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · Jul 16
100 Years Appreciation Post.
The University of Minnesota Press was made official at a Board of Regents meeting on July 16, 1925.
We have marked this milestone with an exhibit at the U's Andersen Library and content that can be viewed at z.umn.edu/ump100.
Thank you for following us. 💯
A black background with, at top, a photo of a few dozen University of Minnesota Press staff in the office building's glass-walled atrium; in middle, a special 100th Press logo; at bottom, two black and white images side by side: (1 at left) The sales department in 1947. L to R: Evelyn Munro; Renee Groth Smith; Mrs. DeVries; Mrs. Irma Koefod; Mrs. Zita M. Greb; Mrs. Charlotte Jones; Minnie Matsuura. (2, at right) Press book exhibit, late 1930s, a poster with header The University of Minnesota Press Reflects the Life of City State World.
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Journalists #DonLemon, #GeorgiaFort arrested last night for covering protest against ICE earlier this month. Jessica Lopez Lyman @uminnpress.bsky.social lays down her theory on why MN has become a federal target w/ @sugi.bsky.social & Whitney Terrell. lithub.com/jessica-lope... #lithubpod #writers
Jessica Lopez Lyman on the History of State Violence in Minnesota
Interdisciplinary performance artist and Xicana feminist scholar Jessica Lopez Lyman joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about Minnesota’s history with state violence and…
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January 30, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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The journal @lithub.com.web.brid.gy has been running Letters from Minnesotans this week, essays by some of our most respected writers. Today's from Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong woman and a brilliant and honored writer, might break you. But all of them are powerful. lithub.com/letter-from-...
Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…”
Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as f…
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January 28, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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🆕 🎧 The perilous edge between patriotism and fascism: On the work of Maria Janion, with Marta Figlerowicz and @noahfeldman.bsky.social
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The perilous edge between patriotism and fascism | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 128
The work of Maria Janion, one of Eastern Europe’s most profound intellectuals, who witnessed the rise of authoritarian nationalism in Poland, German occupation during World War II, Soviet control, and...
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January 28, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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📗 R. Christian Phillips reviews "Cinema is the Strongest Weapon: Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy" by Lorenzo Fabbri (@uminnpress.bsky.social) in Journal of Film and Video Vol. 77, No. 4, on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
Cover of Journal of Film and Video, Volume 77, No. 4, Winter 2025 Purple letters spelling out "JFV" and full journal title in green and white text on a black background with close-up photo of a camera lens
January 23, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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NEW EPISODE: Performance artist and Xicana feminist scholar Jessica Lopez Lyman @uminnpress.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about Minnesota’s history with state violence and local resistance.
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Jessica Lopez Lyman on the History of State Violence in Minnesota
Interdisciplinary performance artist and Xicana feminist scholar Jessica Lopez Lyman joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about Minnesota’s history with state violence and…
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January 22, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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This year's James Beard Awards semifinalists are in, and we're happy to see contributors to KITCHENS OF HOPE Gustavo Romero and Kate Romero (Oro by Nixta) and Yia Vang (Vinai) included. Congrats! www.startribune.com/minnesota-ch...
Cookbook cover for Kitchen of Hope: Immigrants Share Stories of Resilience and Recipes from Home by Linda S. Svitak and Christin Jaye Eaton, with Lee Svitak Dean. Photography by Tom Wallace. Image: Plated spices, peppers, and peppercorns shown beside geometric shapes and woven textiles. Title in lower left against a blue background.
January 21, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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A huge thanks to @uminnpress.bsky.social for this box of absolute beauties. Order yours here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791782.... Christmas is coming, buy six!
January 20, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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This Page Intentionally Left Blank: @pinebeltblues.bsky.social reviews KJ Cerankowski's NOTHING WANTING (@uminnpress.bsky.social)
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January 19, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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karenpinkus.bsky.social
A powerful account of the imbrications of borders and media. The focus may be Europe but the effects of paranoia, surveillance, anxiety and, sometimes, small acts of piety, have global resonances. Highly recommended. Versione italiana da venire...University of Minnesota Press. Highly recommended.
January 19, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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New podcast day!! Here is ep. 385A: Dr. Jeffrey Angles discusses his translation of THE LUMINOUS FAIRIES AND MOTHRA, a sequel to GODZILLA that launched one of the most beloved monsters in the “kaijuverse.” @uminnpress.bsky.social

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January 16, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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“Drawing upon James and Grace Lee Boggs’s expanded notion of the cybercultural era, Brian Bartell demonstrates how a range of artists, writers, and activists from the 1960s prefigured the wider discourse around automation and made it a central concern of their politics.”
On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution
Uncovering the Black Power movement’s contributions to theorizing the politics of automation​   On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution offers a comp...
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January 14, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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carynrose.bsky.social
for this week's Salon column, I wrote about a handful of new-ish music books: Mary Lucia's memoir, Jon Bernstein's astonishing Justin Townes Earle bio, Amy Rigby's most recent memoir & Cameron Crowe's "The Uncool" www.salon.com/2026/01/13/t...
Telling the hard parts: 4 music books that push past the highlight reel
From radio legend Mary Lucia to Justin Townes Earle, these books examine the price worth paying for a creative life.
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January 13, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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🆕🎧: New on our podcast, anti-mafia organizing and solidarity movements in Italy. With Christina Jerne, Deborah Puccio-Den, and Trine Korsby.
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Anti-mafia organizing and solidarity movements in Italy | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 127
For more than 150 years, Italy has been home to a resilient and evolving resistance against the pervasive influence of mafias. While these criminal organizations are renowned for their vast internatio...
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January 13, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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Officially out today! The original story that hatched Mothra, available in English for the first time.

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The Luminous Fairies and Mothra
The original story that hatched Mothra, one of the most beloved monsters in the “kaijuverse”—available in English for the first time Mystical and benev...
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January 13, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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donnywinter.bsky.social
The translation of "The Luminous Fairies and Mothra" is officially out via @uminnpress.bsky.social! As you snag your copies of the book, re-visit the interview I did with Dr. Jeffrey Angles on Growing Up With Godzilla last year! We take a deep dive into the book!

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Growing Up With Godzilla Ep. 92 - Sympathizing with Monsters (with Dr. Jeffrey Angles)
YouTube video by Donny Winter
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January 12, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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stevenswarbrick.bsky.social
My forthcoming book, DIVEST, is available for preorder. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148... Get 30% off using the discount code below. That’s less than a cup of coffee in some places! @uminnpress.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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If you were at MLA, you could've bought a copy of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, seen at bottom right (thanks for the pic @kristinbluemel.bsky.social!)

If you weren't or didn't, you can still get a 30% discount buying directly from @uminnpress.bsky.social using code MN94920!
January 12, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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From reissued classics, theory and art criticism to poetry, fiction, biography and even a sort of memetic fiction born out of a niche internet subculture, here are The London Magazine’s Best Books of 2025.

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The Best Books of 2025 - The London Magazine
The best books of 2025 as chosen by our contributors, from reissued classics, theory and art criticism to poetry, fiction, biography and more.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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I’m tickled pink. @uminnpress.bsky.social featured my book Enchanted Wood on their banner for MLA 2026. We all need some ideas about survival through beauty and books to get us through this brutal winter.
January 11, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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Book spotted in the wild #MLA2026 @uminnpress.bsky.social to purchase: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791990...
use this code MN94920 for 30% off.
January 11, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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Hello, #MLA26! Find us in the exhibit hall or browse our sale and exciting new books online.
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Book cover for The Obsolescence of the Human by Günther Anders, translated by Christopher John Müller, edited by Christopher John Müller and Christian Dries. Black cover with author name in white and title in yellow sans serif type, all at bottom third. Book cover for Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities, edited by Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies. Title in all caps in yellow, gray, and red, against a textured background patterned in triangle, rectangle, and cube shapes. Book cover for The Horror Theory Reader, edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Title in large white letters down entire cover, except "Horror" in red. Editor name smaller below. Red-tinted view down long ruined corridor is background. Book cover for On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981, by Gilles Deleuze, translated by Charles J. Stivale with the Deleuze Seminars Translation Collective. Grainy photo of Deleuze speaking and gesturing forcefully among many listeners. Author and title on outer margins in large white letters.
January 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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"Cultural AI is called out in the subtitle not as a plea to attend to AI’s better half but because culture has been detached from cognition for too long."

New in review, Matthew Kirschenbaum on Leif Weatherby's Language Machines: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/matthew_kirs...
January 8, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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Good morning, MLA! Stop by the Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social booth today to check out new books and sign up for our newsletter to get a free book #MLA26
Get 30% off at z.umn.edu/mla26!
Book sale: Modern Language Association 2026 - University of Minnesota Press
Books on sale during the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association in Toronto. Books featured in this collection are 30% off when you order using promo code MN94920.Offer... READ MORE
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January 9, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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I pre-ordered this book "Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine" and am looking forward to it. I don't know the author's work but I am very interested in the topic. Seems very timely. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...
Techno-Negative
A radical history of technology told through acts of resistance, not progressThe history of technology is often told as a history of progress, moving optimis...
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January 6, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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morbuscriticus.bsky.social
Finally, here it is!
(Many thanks to @uminnpress.bsky.social.)
January 8, 2026 at 8:53 AM